Tuesday, June 27, 2006

I've mentioned before how much I enjoyed the different styles incorporated by each of my contest entrants. Lisa, the Bitter Knitter, used a contemporary string of images and phrases to plead her case:

brazen monkey emboldened by thebottle you clasphoist eagerly to yourdipful sipful lips full of boozebestow on me that mass of stringthat Trekking which eludes my graspthat my toes might clench its colorsmy fingers delight as it passes throughonto my most pointy of sticks

Plus, she called me a brazen monkey. That's always good for something.

Leone, of the Land Unknown Blog, took a different approach. She also used a great deal of images, but this time they are used to create first a sense of overwhelming frustration followed by the order and comfort she feels knowing that her knitting is there to calm her.

These form the mosiac shellthat illuminate against my needlescovers me as I restslide stitches into memorieskeeps me heremy finger's can't forgetand I sleep.

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I love that. My knitting is such a comfort to me, too, even if I'm not even working on anything, I know it is there, and I know the love and care that has gone into each piece.

For her efforts, Leone will receive a ball of OnLine Supersocke 100, which is 45% Baumwolle, 40% Schurwolle, and 15% Polyamid. It's 100 grams/380 meters. I love this rainbow colorway, and I hope she does, too.

Hi Brooke, just wondering if you know if Knitty has posted the corrections for the size 6 Reid sweater. I know people were finding that it was ending up too large, and this is the size that I want to make for my friend's daughter. I don't want to start it unless I have the right instructions. I thought maybe you might know if they've been corrected. It's such a beautiful pattern and will look sweet on my friend's daughter.